re: Chick-fil-A sandwich too controversial for Cali High School

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artifacts of marriage?

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And these ad what exactly?

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Uh, marriage has existed in every culture, forever, continuously, since before the beginning of history. It seems beyond asinine to say it doesn't.

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which doesn't mean that it is in any way related to what modern marriage is. Quite simply, women were sold. They were a piece of propery. They didn't choose who they married. And polygamy was quite common.

Let's look at the story of Jacob. He toiled seven years so he could marry Rachel. Laban then substituted Leah. Jacob gets to marry Rachel by committing to seven more years of work. Is this marriage somehow relevant to today?

Perhaps modern married women should get their own house since beena was typical of early middle eastern marriages.

Or perhaps we should adopt the practices of Old Testament Jews which had no rules imposing fidelity on the husband but death for adulterous wives.